Rummy Card Game

At that point grand total for each player is calculated, with bonuses, and the player with the highest score wins the whole game.

Each player gets 10 cards. The remaining deck is put on the table between the players face down, and one card is put face up besides the deck to start the discard pile.

In each turn a player must start by drawing one card. He can either draw the top card from the deck or the top card from the discard pile.

Generally you only draw the top card from the discard pile if you know that the card will help you create a meld with some of the other cards in your hand.

Note: In the first turn, the starting player must choose to either draw the face up card in the board or pass the turn. If the card is drawn, proceed normally.

If the turn is passed, the other player gets to make the same choice. If they pass too, the first player takes their turn normally.

After the player has drawn a card he must discard one card by putting it face up on top of the discard pile. If the player has drawn the top card from the discard pile at the start of the turn he may not discard that card until his next turn also, that wouldn't make any sense at all.

He may however discard a card he has just drawn from the deck, or any other card he has in his hand. The game continues like this, with players drawing and discard cards, while they try to build sets and runs in their hand.

The round ends when one player knocks , by discarding a card and putting it face down on the discard pile. The player that knocked the knocker then shows his melds and his deadwood by putting it face up on the table.

The opponent then shows his melds and deadwood. The opponent is allowed to lay off any of his deadwood cards onto the knocker's melds if he can.

For example if the knocker had a meld, H1 H2 H3 and the opponent has a H4 as part of his deadwood he can add it to the knocker's meld, and then it won't count as deadwood anymore.

The knocker cannot do the same, he can never lay off his deadwood. Additionally, if the knocker has Gin or Big Gin no deadwood then the opponent is not allowed to lay off any cards.

There are some rules for when you can knock. They vary between different versions, but this is how it's done on this site: You may only knock if you end up with 10 or fewer points of deadwood human cards count as 10, aces as 1 and other cards their numeric values.

The card you knock with put facedown on the discard pile is not included in that number. Knocking with no deadwood, i.

Going Big Gin is when you have 11 cards in melds, in which case you can say you have Big Gin and the game ends without you discarding the final card facedown.

The game also ends if neither player has knocked and there are only two cards left in the deck. This is called Going Rummy , and is a risky move, since you have a lot of cards for a long time, but can really pay off if you manage to do it successfully!

There are two cases where the game can end in a stalemate. One, as mentioned above, is when the stock has been depleted twice. The other is when the game detects that none of the players will be able to finish their hands.

This can for example happen when all players have only one card left, and there are no possible lay offs on the melds on the table. When there's a stalemate all players get 0 points, and the game is considered a loss for all of them in the statistics.

The way people handle this in real life varies greatly, but I've chosen this simple method here to avoid complications around two or more players having the same number of points etc.

This online version of the classic card game Rummy was made by me. My name is Einar Egilsson and over there on the left is my current Facebook profile picture.

A few months ago I made Gin Rummy. After that the most requested game has been standard Rummy, so now I've made that! Enjoy :. The playing card images were made by Nicu Buculei.

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Game speed. All games Spread cards. If each player hoards cards that other players want, each player could draw from the pile and discard the card he or she just drew.

Theoretically, this sort of game could go on forever. To avoid that sort of repetition, players might consider limiting how many times they reshuffle the discard pile per round.

The discard pile is never reused In a variation of rummy called block rummy. Once the stock pile runs out, the game is over and all players score their remaining cards.

In a common variation of traditional rummy, only the winner scores points after each round. The winner then gets the total number of points from all the cards in the hands of the losing players.

When playing this way, the game still ends once a player reaches a target score. The player who reaches it wins the game. Others play that the winner wins real cash from the losers according to how many points they each have in his or her hand.

When playing this way, the game would end after an agreed-upon number of rounds instead of once a certain score is reached.

Book : 3 or 4 same-ranking cards. Example: 10 of spades, 10 of diamonds and 10 of hearts. One of two types of melds in rummy.

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Sign up. Thank you! You are not allowed to meld all your cards, leaving nothing to discard. Some play that when the stock has run out and the next player does not want the discard, the discard pile is shuffled before reusing it as a stock.

This is the version now given in most books. If there is no shuffle, players who can memorise the order of cards in the discard pile will clearly have an advantage.

It is just about possible, though very unlikely, that a repetitive situation could occur where each player is holding on to cards wanted by the others.

Each player draws from the stock and discards the card they just drew. In this case, recycling the discard pile as a new stock, whether shuffled or not, will not help.

If the players are stubborn, the game could be endless. To avoid this, it may be a good idea to limit the number of times that the discard pile can be reused as a new stock.

I suggest that after the stock becomes exhausted for the third time, the play should end if the next player does not want to take the discard.

Alternatively, you could agree that the discard pile gets reused only once and the play ends when the stock is used up for the second time.

In the version known as Block Rummy , the discard pile is not reused at all. For the best experience we recommend playing in landscape orientation.

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